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only sufficient^ after the elementary books had been 
finished^ to enable us to print 1500 copies; but the 
arrival of the liberal grant from the Bible Society 
enabled us at once to double the number of copies. 
Although the demand has increased^ and larger editions 
of the subsequent books have been necessary, the 
British and Foreign Bible Society has generously 
furnished the paper for every subsequent portion of the 
Scriptures that has been printed in the islands. 
The composition and press-work of the elementary 
books, and of the greater portion of the edition of nearly 
3000 copies of St. Luke’s Gospel, was performed almost 
entirely by Mr. Crook and myself. In the mean time, 
two natives were instructed to perform the most 
laborious parts ; and, before the book was finished, they 
were able, under proper superintendence, to relieve us 
from the mechanical labour of press-work,—a depart¬ 
ment in which, they with others have been ever since 
employed 5 receiving regular payment for the same. 
In all works subsequently published, the Missionaries, 
on whom the management of printing has devolved, 
have been in a great measure relieved, by the aid of 
those instructed in that department of this useful art. 
We laboured eight, and sometimes ten, hours daily, 
yet found that the work advanced but slowly. Not¬ 
withstanding all the care that had been exercised in 
selecting the printing materials and the accompanying 
apparatus, many things were either deficient or spoiled j 
here we could procure no proper supply, and the edition 
was not completed until the beginning of 1818. It was 
entitled, Te Evanelia na Luka^ iritihia ei parau 
Tahiti,'^ literally. The Gospel of Luke, taken out to be, 
or transferred to, the language of Tahiti E-parau hae- 
